Prof. Dr. A.G. Hoekstra is a professor in Computational Science at the University of Amsterdam and the national research university ITMO, St Petersburg, Russia. His research focuses on multi-scale multi-science modelling, large scale simulations, and high performance computing, mainly in the biomedical domain and complex systems science. He has a long-standing expertise in Computational Biomedicine, Complex Systems simulations, and high performance parallel and distributed computing. He has published over 250 research papers.

He has extensive experience in participation and management of EU Framework projects. He was the project coordinator of the COAST project (FP6) and the MAPPER project (FP7) and is currently the project coordinator of the ComPat project.